NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — OncoDNA, a clinical NGS provider affiliated with the Institute of Pathology and Genetics in Gosselies, Belgium, announced last week that it is providing targeted sequencing of metastatic breast cancer patients for a large international effort called AURORA, led by the Breast International Group, a non-profit that facilitates breast cancer research.

The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) is a manually curated, comprehensive collection of disease-causing, germline mutations. Since 1996, a team of experts has manually catalogued over a quarter of a million mutations for the database.

This webinar will review a recent study that applied whole-genome sequencing and optical genome mapping to identify a large number of previously undetected somatic structural variants in leukemia samples.